Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

And yet, many leaders wrongly believe the path to consistent, proper conduct is special methods to reward whistle-blowing — offering incentives to truth-tellers who report major lapses. Is a multimillion-dollar payday the key to corporate ethics? First, small ethical lapses are already happening in your company.

Ethics 8

Ethics Report Long-term Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Relatedly, managers tend to hold on to long-held assumed truths that often management scholars’ studies have dispelled. Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences.

Metrics 10

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Most sales forces focus a good deal of their attention on the short term — on bringing in today’s sales or making this quarter’s numbers. Quarterly goal attainment is a visible measure of success, and often a determinant of incentive pay. The best sales leaders understand the downside of excessive short-term focus.

Short-term 8

Short-term Succession Long-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

As I reflected upon my career at Goldman Sachs, though, what stood out was the importance of its organizational structure. One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do. Compensation Ethics Finance'

Banking 9

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

When I met him, long ago, he was picking himself up after a tough year. But when he still felt scarred despite new opportunities, he realized that work had “almost killed” him long before — when it became his life. Romance has long been known for making us lose our minds. Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

Long-term 8

Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Without a purposeful plan, Davey says that “managers too often do what’s easy in the short-term and ask the most talented person” to do the hard work. Earlier in his career when Kyle headed up a team at Reuters, he managed a star performer named Janice. “I knew her work ethic,” he says.

Delegation 8

Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. A common theme in these situations is that there are only a few winning slots — and maybe just one — with massive stakes in terms of money, advancement, and fame. We investigated people’s ethical behavior in self-reporting their performance.

Ethics 14

Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Executives never stayed long. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. They took posture that nobody could say ‘no’ to Enron and that suppliers and vendors work with Enron on their terms only.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57